- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Andropogon lancifolius Trin.; Arthraxon microphyllus f. lancifolius (Trin.) Backer; Arthraxon microphyllus var. lancifolius (Trin.) Hack.; Batratherum lancifolium (Trin.) Will.Watson; Pleuroplitis lancifolius (Trin.) Regel; Andropogon multicaulis Steud.; Arthraxon comorensis A.Camus; Arthraxon figarii (De Not.) Asch. & Schweinf.; Arthraxon lancifolius var. birmanicus Kuntze; Arthraxon lancifolius var. eremophilus Bor; Arthraxon lancifolius var. hindustanicus S.K.Jain & Deshp.; Arthraxon linifolius Henrard; Arthraxon microphyllus var. hindustanicus (S.K.Jain & Deshp.) S.M.Almeida & M.R.Almeida; Arthraxon microphyllus f. intermedius Backer; Arthraxon minor Hochst.; Arthraxon mollis (Nees) Duthie; Arthraxon schimperi (Steud.) Hochst.; Arthraxon schmidtii Hochst.; Batratherum molle Nees; Batratherum molle var. majus Nees; Batratherum molle var. tenue Nees; Batratherum schimperi (A.Rich.) Nees ex Hochst.; Lucaea ciliata (J.A.Schmidt) Steud.; Lucaea schimperi Steud.; Pleuroplitis ciliata J.A.Schmidt; Pleuroplitis schimperi (A.Rich.) Regel; Pogonatherum tenue Edgew.; Psilopogon figarii De Not.; Psilopogon schimperi A.Rich.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Arthraxon lancifolius (Trin.) Hochst.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands, deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Common
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Collector(s) Name : S.R.Ramesh, B.R.Ramesh; F.M.Jarrett, T.P.Ramamoorthy; H.O.Saxena, M.Brahmam
- Collection Date : 16-11-1979, 25-10-1970, 24-10-1978
- Collection Nos : KFP 10483, HFP 1018, RRL 3516
- Collection Locality : Swamimalai forest, Sandur, Bellari district; Manjarabad fort, Hassan district; Mahendragiri, Odisha
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Mayurbhanj district, Gajapati district, Ganjam district, Koraput district, Khurda district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, China, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, S
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, China, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 273
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Arthraxon lancifolius. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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